Stories from Women-In-Fire Prescribed Fire Training Exchanges (WTREX)
Editor’s note: This week, our blog manager Annie Leverich is attending a Women-In-Fire Prescribed Fire Training Exchange (WTREX) in north-central Nebraska at the Niobrara Valley Preserve. WTREX, modeled after Prescribed…
Resource Roundup: Wildfire Preparedness in Your Community
Each year, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) hosts a campaign for Wildfire Community Preparedness Day on the first Saturday in May. This year, it falls on Saturday, May 4th,…
Third Time’s the Charm: Burning at Cottonwood Gulch
Editor’s note: Carlos Saiz is the Southwest Fire and Fuels Coordinator for the Forest Stewards Guild. Sam Berry is the Guild’s Southwest Associate Director and a Fire Learning Network Project…
Choosing a Fire Future: Lessons from Southwest Colorado
Editor’s note: Michael Caggiano is a longtime Fire Learning Network partner and Fire Management Specialist with the USDA Forest Service. Ty Aldworth is a Research Associate with the Colorado Forest…
Pyro Futures: Imagining Our Evolving Relationship with Fire
Editor’s note: Emily Schlickman and Brett Milligan are professors of landscape architecture and environmental design at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis). In this blog, they introduce the Pyro…
Our Responsibility to the Future
Editor’s note: Ryan Reed is from the Karuk, Hupa and Yurok tribes in Northern California. He is an Indigenous Fire Practitioner, co-founder and program director of the FireGeneration Collaborative, wildland…
Reciprocity through Art: The Fire and Music Project
Editor’s note: Ellen McGehee is a Fire Operations Specialist for the Watershed Research and Training Center (also known as the Watershed Center) in Trinity County, CA. Ellen is also a…
Wildfire Insurance, Fire Smart Landscaping, and Preparedness for Short-Term Rentals
Editor’s note: The Fire Adapted Montana Learning Network (FAMLN) is a long time member of the national Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network (FAC Net), and is also connected to the…
Minding the Gap: Increasing Data Equity in Fire Adaptation
Editor’s note: Tiernan Doyle is FAC Net’s Strategy Director. In this blog, she shares an overview of a recent learning series for the Fire Networks on “data equity,” and how…
Fire in the Swamp: Lessons Learned from the Pulp Road Wildfire
Editor’s note: Nathan Burmester is the Coastal Plain Stewardship Manager for The Nature Conservancy in North Carolina. He also serves as an at-large board member for the North Carolina Prescribed…
